Abu Izzadeen

Trevor Brooks (18 April 1975-22 March 2017), better known as Abu Izzadeen, was a British al-Qaeda recruiter who carried out a March 2017 vehicle and knife attack within the grounds of the Palace of Westminster in London, England, killing 3 men and injuring over 20.

Biography
Trevor Brooks was born in Hackney, East London, England on 18 April 1975 to a family of immigrants from Jamaica, and he converted to Islam in 1993. He worked as an electrician, and he met Abu Hamza al-Masri and Omar Bakri Muhammad at the Finsbury Park Mosque during the 1990s, becoming a radical Islamist. In 2001, he gave lectures in Pakistan as an al-Muhajiroun member, and he attended al-Qaeda training camps. He openly stated that he wanted to die as a suicide bomber, and he praised the 7/7 attackers of 2005. On 2 August 2007, he was arrested for inciting terrorism, and he was again arrested in April 2007, April 2008, and November 2015. On 22 March 2017, he decided to carry out a terrorist attack in front of the Palace of Westminster in London, fulfilling his dream of dying for jihad. He drove a grey Hyundai Tucson over Westminster Bridge and mowed down several passers-by with his vehicle before exiting the vehicle and knifing a policeman in New Palace Yard. Two plainclothes policemen sho thim four times after warning him, and he died of his wounds.